Novoazovsk

There are times I would prefer not to be proven right. Back in March I wrote: “There is a second danger zone in August, when European leaders are too busy with their holiday plans to worry much about foreign affairs. When this window closes at the beginning of September, Ukraine begins to see light at […]

Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko cancelled a trip to Turkey and announced mandatory conscription as more Russian troops and vehicles crossed the border into Ukraine’s embattled province of Donetsk. Rather than heading straight towards the regional capital, these forces fired Grad rockets at the lightly armed border guards before turning towards Novoazovsk, the first town on […]